Good afternoon wedding lovers! The sun is shining and love is in the air! I absolutely ADORE London at this time of year, there is something so tangible in the air. You can feel the hope and promise of the summer and absolutely everything seems possible.

Today I’m welcoming a sponsor to the blog. Friends Film It. When it comes to budgeting for your wedding the majority of us need to prioritise between a ‘can’t live without’ and a ‘do without’. Often on the hit list is your videography.

I made the choice to sacrifice capturing my big day on video when planning my own wedding as I’d spent all the money elsewhere and didn’t entirely feel comfortable with being filmed. A few years down the line and I have to say I do slightly regret not having a videographer… as my memory of the day slowly slides away…

So I’m chuffed to bits to be welcoming an alternative and altogether more affordable solution from Friends Film It. Simply loan the equipment from them [don’t worry you also get a handy tutorial] and ask your friends to film it! After the wedding day you send the equipment back and Friends Film It will edit the highlights of your big day!

Founder and Editor of the WTW blog. Sonia set up Want That Wedding over 7 years ago - after her own wedding day.
During the planning process, Sonia realised she had a mad crazy love for all things wedding and continues to be a total wedding obsessive to this very day!
Happiest when swooning over newlyweds real weddings or beautiful wedding dresses... she's also an incurable romantic who is rather fond of anything that glitters.
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It’s a shame as we hear son many couples saying the same thing further down the line….”We wish we had our wedding filmed now”.
I am baffled at why a videographer is still so far down the list for couples to be wed, and a photographer is top of the list? No, a professional wedding video is like your own feature film. Imagine all the best picked photos you get from the photographer…..accept these are now put together as moving images in your film. Often the cost of a photographer is as much as a videographer, and the videographer has weeks and weeks of editing to make a film after. So wedding videographers are really quite cost effective.

There is no comparison anymore, it is truly magical and will bring your day back to life, something still images cannot do.

Don’t sacrifice the finished product with getting your friends to film it, if it’s not shot skillfully then there’s only so much editing can do to save it.